"It's in my neighborhood," said Givens swims performer Nook Turner. "It's in my community. This is where we live at. This is what we love and this is what we're fighting to hold on to. So it means a lot to me to be a part of this."

They said Austin was having a hard time affording city pool maintenance because taking care of 50-year-old pools costs a lot of money.

"I grew up playing in this pool," said Turner. "This is where our blood is, on the soil and the east side, so we gotta do something to maintain that and not lose it."